State of your crops?

EddieB

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Arable Farmer
Location
Staffs
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Pea and oat mix. The oats are slightly more to the fore than I was planning but will see how the mix progresses.
 

EddieB

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Arable Farmer
Location
Staffs
looking good,
and well, the oats were going to establish a bit quicker than the peas weren't they.
what's the end use plan ? as a matter of interest.
End game still to be decided. If they reach maturity together then combine them and separate through a cleaner. If not then the peas take priority. A bit of an experiment seeing if the combined total yield exceeds what I would expect from a monoculture.
 

Lincsman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
End game still to be decided. If they reach maturity together then combine them and separate through a cleaner. If not then the peas take priority. A bit of an experiment seeing if the combined total yield exceeds what I would expect from a monoculture.
It was common in the days of Theshing machines as they are set up to separate the grains, not sure why it was done other than helped prevent diseases?
 

Jerry

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
10 days in and a lot of rain in that time plus no frosts.

Spring barley romping away....getting bit nervous about it in case it builds a big canopy and we then get dry and hot.

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Winter barley looking better than a month ago but still not great I fear.
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wheats have found last split of N applied a week ago. On the whole pleased with them.
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cows r us

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BASE UK Member
Location
Buckinghamshire
Our crops are looking good in general although our spring oats are really struggling this year. They are so slow out the ground and just not getting going. Blw and grass weeds now coming through due to the amount of rain. The oats usually smother them before they get going. I'm thinking it maybe poor seed vigour combined with shite weather. The silage boys will be busy this year on mine.
 

ajd132

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
Our crops are looking good in general although our spring oats are really struggling this year. They are so slow out the ground and just not getting going. Blw and grass weeds now coming through due to the amount of rain. The oats usually smother them before they get going. I'm thinking it maybe poor seed vigour combined with shite weather. The silage boys will be busy this year on mine.
Agree oats do seem slow this year
 

Salopian_Will

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BASE UK Member
Location
Shropshire
Had a look at our Barley today, quite pleased with it.

Its Cassia, planted something like September 23rd.

Last year I posted some pictures of a rather crap crop of wheat growing in this field. Its amazing the difference in the two growing years.

We have one field drilled around the 23rd and it looks well. The majority was drilled about a week later on some heavy ground and never recovered from the 3 inches of rain that fell on it straight after. It only goes to demonstrate that WB needs to go in tidily and why on our heavy ground we should stick to second wheats.
 

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